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The trademark margin-cutting strategy of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has disrupted brick-and-mortar commerce and forever changed consumer spending, but that’s only the prelude to the future impact on the enterprise. The retail-turned-cloud-giant’s model is now redefining the fundamental economics of technology services …
Amazon edges toward hybrid cloud embrace with CodeDeploy updates
Amazon has extended its recently introduced code deployment service to work with on-premise machines in a small but significant expansion signaling a strategic change of focus toward hybrid clouds. It’s among the last of the major providers to have seriously embraced the …
CliQr nets $20 million from Google and friends to take the pain out of the hybrid cloud
CliQr Technologies Inc. has snagged $20 million in fresh funding from some of the biggest names On the technology investment scene for its cloud management platform. As the name suggests, the patent-pending software is claimed to reduce the usually painful process of …
Host Analytics aims to address problem of islands of Excel
Host Analytics Inc. is expanding its cloud-based performance management platform with a new modeling service that centralizes planning across the enterprise. The addition aims to address the lack of coordination that too often exists between the financial department and the rest of …
What you missed in Big Data: Connecting the dots
Data insights became a lot more accessible last week with the emergence of new integrations meant to help facilitate the flow of information across the enterprise. Syncosrt Inc. opened the floodgates after teaming up with Impetus Technologies Inc. to take some of …
What you missed in Cloud: Collaborative goals
The big players turned the cloud spotlight to collaboration last week with a series of major product updates aimed at easing the distribution of data outside the corporate network. Google provided the initial push after introducing much-needed security controls for its fast-growing …
After initial resistance, OpenStack kingpin Mirantis throws its weight behind Cloud Foundry
In a major turning point for the OpenStack community, Mirantis Inc. has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation to help support the adoption of the platform-as-a-service stack. The move marks a total reversal of its earlier attitude toward the project. Until not long ago, …
Amazon’s new data-hungry D2 instances target Hadoop workloads
Amazon has added a new kind of instance to its public cloud that is specially optimized to handle the massive amounts of data stored and processed in the distributed analytic clusters powering modern decision-making like Hadoop. The batch processing framework splits work …
Running a Google Cloud Platform deployment? There’s an app for that
Google is opening a new front in the competition over the public cloud with the introduction of a mobile monitoring app to complement its infrastructure-as-a-service platform. Google is playing catch-up in this area with Amazon, however, which introduced a mobile companion to …
Alation exits stealth aiming to liberate enterprise data from silos
While some propose radical centralization as the answer to the inaccessibility of disparate information sources in the enterprise, Alation Inc. is offering a much simpler – and practical – approach to the challenge. The startup exited stealth on Tuesday with a new cataloging …